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old woman who likes to draw sometimes. kind of a big nerd. married to @mcfreeze.bsky.social i got an art feed if you're interested in such things

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Painting of a bird eating a red berry

Painting of a bird eating a red berry

Bird study 8 🎨 4.5"x6"

This is the last bird study in this learning journey. Thank you everyone for all of your kind words and supports! Doing a series of eight landscape studies next

#watercolor #watercolour #birdart #art

28.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 46    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Painting of a magpie being held in hand straight at camera

Painting of a magpie being held in hand straight at camera

Painting of a magpie held at an angle to demonstrate the light bouncing off of the black areas

Painting of a magpie held at an angle to demonstrate the light bouncing off of the black areas

ill be damned. it WAS dry before, ivory black just stays shiny

28.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#portraitchallenge #digitalart #art 🎨

28.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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stared at browt so much i had a vision

27.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 10991    🔁 3805    💬 42    📌 45

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

25.02.2026 20:29 — 👍 11838    🔁 5325    💬 386    📌 294

doing these watercolor studies to learn things about the medium like how apparently a heavy wash of ivory black takes forever to dry and i should just be patient and take my photos on another day

25.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Watercolor painting of a magpie on grass

Watercolor painting of a magpie on grass

Bird study 7 🎨 6"x4.5"

#watercolor #watercolour #birdart #art

25.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 30    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

why the change in the first place?? i lived on 13th for years and those roads seem really poorly suited to be 2-way

24.02.2026 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Watercolor painting of a parrot

Watercolor painting of a parrot

bird study 6 🎨 6"x4.5"
Now THIS one was too ambitious

#watercolor #watercolour #birdart #art

23.02.2026 22:40 — 👍 183    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 1

Bird study 2 again 🎨
plus I finally found the magical button on my phone that crops the table out of the photograph

#coloredpencil #colouredpencil #art #birdart #drawing

22.02.2026 22:38 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#portraitchallenge #digitalart #art #portrait 🎨

22.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Watercolor painting of a blue jay on a wire in front of a green background #art

Watercolor painting of a blue jay on a wire in front of a green background #art

#watercolor bird study 5 🎨

21.02.2026 21:08 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Watercolor painting of a blue jay on a wire in front of a green background #art

Watercolor painting of a blue jay on a wire in front of a green background #art

#watercolor bird study 5 🎨

21.02.2026 21:08 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
The Klingon Duras sisters, B'etor and Lursa, drawn in the style of Beavis & Butt-head

The Klingon Duras sisters, B'etor and Lursa, drawn in the style of Beavis & Butt-head

recently watched an episode of Star Trek TNG with the Duras sisters, so I'm reposting this thing I drew in 2022

19.02.2026 23:04 — 👍 2126    🔁 552    💬 8    📌 14
Three valentines candy conversation hearts that read "Cook For 2", "Buy N Bulk", and "Split Rent". These are real I swear to god

Three valentines candy conversation hearts that read "Cook For 2", "Buy N Bulk", and "Split Rent". These are real I swear to god

i've heard of recession indicators but *this* is ridiculous!

19.02.2026 21:47 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Coca-Cola bottle whose label reads in large letters: Contains No Dairy

Coca-Cola bottle whose label reads in large letters: Contains No Dairy

don't worry everybody,

19.02.2026 01:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

but what if #colorpencil bird study 1 😈🎨

17.02.2026 23:09 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Watercolor painting of a cardinal sitting on a branch #art

Watercolor painting of a cardinal sitting on a branch #art

#watercolor bird study 4 🎨

16.02.2026 22:03 — 👍 137    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
A watercolor painting of two pigeons, a male and a female, standing together. #art

A watercolor painting of two pigeons, a male and a female, standing together. #art

#watercolor bird study 3 🎨 happy Valentine's day

14.02.2026 21:06 — 👍 100    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0

got a little ambitious with today's watercolor study given the size of paper i'm doing these on. this medium is hard

14.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Artists, quote with something silly!

12.02.2026 19:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Watercolor painting of a cockatiel #art
I deleted this and re-uploaded it because I got a better photo in natural light 🤫

Watercolor painting of a cockatiel #art I deleted this and re-uploaded it because I got a better photo in natural light 🤫

#watercolor bird study 2 🎨

12.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 77    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

slept through my alarm to finish a dream that was garbage, plot made zero sense, but it was carried by Bryan Cranston's performance

12.02.2026 13:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Small sketchbook painting of a brown eye looking upward with a light source coming from our left. Her iris is being pulled up and flows past her lid to turn into black smoke trailing to the top of the page. The skin is painted in cloudy layers of a pinky peach tone, with some greens around the edges
Painted in watercolor, colored pencil, and gouache

Small sketchbook painting of a brown eye looking upward with a light source coming from our left. Her iris is being pulled up and flows past her lid to turn into black smoke trailing to the top of the page. The skin is painted in cloudy layers of a pinky peach tone, with some greens around the edges Painted in watercolor, colored pencil, and gouache

A plush heart hanging on a white wall. The center of the piece shows an eye embroidered in various shades of red thread looking sadly to the right, with one red teardrop bead beneath the waterline. Surrounding it are a variety of red beads to transition into the red felt body of the heart. There are rays of gold thread and beads emanating from the center to the edges, ending in a gold pearl border. There are three drips of red beads coming from the eye, ending in two small teardrops on the sides and a larger teardrop in the middle
Completely hand embroidered

A plush heart hanging on a white wall. The center of the piece shows an eye embroidered in various shades of red thread looking sadly to the right, with one red teardrop bead beneath the waterline. Surrounding it are a variety of red beads to transition into the red felt body of the heart. There are rays of gold thread and beads emanating from the center to the edges, ending in a gold pearl border. There are three drips of red beads coming from the eye, ending in two small teardrops on the sides and a larger teardrop in the middle Completely hand embroidered

A pink cone-shaped hat completely covered in pieces of lace and beads. It has a beaded shrimp motif inside a star shaped patch at the front. The bottom edge has dark pink lace and a pom-pom of the same color sits at the top

A pink cone-shaped hat completely covered in pieces of lace and beads. It has a beaded shrimp motif inside a star shaped patch at the front. The bottom edge has dark pink lace and a pom-pom of the same color sits at the top

A painting in a sketchbook showing a woman's eyes and nose lit dramatically from below, casting dark shadows across the skin. Her irises are connected together in a syrup-like line in an infinity shape. The colors are saturated and painted in many loose layers with some blues and greens around the edge
Painted in watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil

A painting in a sketchbook showing a woman's eyes and nose lit dramatically from below, casting dark shadows across the skin. Her irises are connected together in a syrup-like line in an infinity shape. The colors are saturated and painted in many loose layers with some blues and greens around the edge Painted in watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil

it's my birthday so you can give me the gift of sharing my art :)
#art

10.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 164    🔁 79    💬 14    📌 4
Watercolor painting of a blue bird with a black head #art

Watercolor painting of a blue bird with a black head #art

#watercolor bird study 1 🎨

10.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 110    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1
watercolor color studies. four color wheels labeled with different combinations of pigments, and some stripes of green mixing labeled with sap green

watercolor color studies. four color wheels labeled with different combinations of pigments, and some stripes of green mixing labeled with sap green

decided I'm going to finally try to learn #watercolor in earnest so im messing around with color studies

08.02.2026 21:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
illustration of Picard doing the classic facepalm from Star Trek: The Next Generation, with some sketches of riker outlined on the side and Q on the top #art

illustration of Picard doing the classic facepalm from Star Trek: The Next Generation, with some sketches of riker outlined on the side and Q on the top #art

looking through my archives and forgot about this little #BeamMeToSickBay cover that never got finished -- i was trying to mix it up and make a collage instead of just doing a single shot like normal, and i didn't love the way it was coming out, so I abandoned it 🎨

08.02.2026 20:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

emergence is a great sci fi concept that isn't going to come from a large language model

06.02.2026 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

no one who needs to hear this will see this post, but the souped up markov bot is not your friend

06.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
three horse hair paint brushes with bristles eaten off by moths

three horse hair paint brushes with bristles eaten off by moths

it never even occurred to me that this stupid moth infestation that's plagued me for a decade would eat my paint brushes

05.02.2026 23:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0